May 15, 2017 – The University of Toronto Aerospace Team’s Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) team recently came in first place at the Unmanned Systems Canada Student Competition, the largest student UAV/drone competition in Canada.

The annual competition promotes and develops Canadian expertise, innovation and experience in unmanned systems technologies at the university and college levels. This year’s wildlife monitoring scenario tasked the teams to census and locate nests of three different types of geese in the remote Canadian wilderness. This year’s challenge required an Unmanned Aerial System to extract eggs from the nests to allow wildlife biologists to test the eggs for levels of pesticides.